Telling the story...

Sometimes newspapers and reporters win a Pulitzer prize for just being in the right place at the right time and win award for doing their job covering a tragedy. Other Pulitzers are given for exception stories that every reporter in America has a chance to write. Jim Sheeler at Denver's Rocky Mountain News has done that with his story Final Salute where he tells the story of a Marine notification officer whose job it is to inform relatives that they have lost their love one. Sheeler won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Dooced.... in TV news

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription only) reported this morning that Little Rock weekend news anchor, Win Noble is about to be dooced for comments made on his now missing blog on myspace. Arkanas TV News reports that he was suspended after station management discovered his blog.

In computer slang, someone is dooced when they are fired for something they wrote on the Internet. The term dooced was coined when now popular blogger Heather Armstrong was fired for what she wrote on her blog Dooce.com.

This should be a warning that whatever you post online whether in text, photos or video can come back to haunt you at a date in the future. So, be careful what you say.

New Camera

Sunset at Degray

My new Canon D20 arrived Friday and I've been playing around with it. It is a sweet camera even without a nice new lens for it (right now, I've been using some older EOS lens I had for a film camera).

Since I now have an abundance of gorgeous pictures, I decided to see what the fuss about flickr was about and after about 20 minutes of playing with I am hooked. I even made this blogger post from inside flickr. I can promise you I will be signing up for a pro account so I can up my upload capabilities.

Windows on a Mac Part II-- Virtualization

Ok. I have to admit. Running XP on a Mac is a bit gimmicky. After you've done it once, there's not much more to it and you do have to shut down one OS to start the other.

What is much more cool is to run Windows XP as a window in Mac OS as a virtual machine. I found a VM software for Mac called Parallels when I was reading Blurbomat. I tried it out this morning and it works great, XP runs fast, but I haven't figured out the networking settings, yet. It may be time to look at the user manual.

Windows on a mac

Apple announced Boot Camp last week which makes it pretty easy to run Windows XP on one of the new macs with Intel Processors. We had a new iMac come through our office this week, so I decided to try it out...

As you can see it we got it running. It only took about an hour to get it up and that includes the time it took to complete update the mac (300 MB in downloads) and install Windows XP.

Apples' Boot Camp utility makes the process pretty fool proof. It has a wizard that leads you through partitioning your hard drive for windows and then automatically creates a CD of all the drivers you'll need to get everything running on a Mac.

Of course, all the Windows lovers say this is just a gimmick by Apple to sale more Macs and that may be true, but it's pretty cool to be able to run Windows and Mac OS on the same computer. I'm just waiting for the virtual PC software to come out that will run XP in the Mac OS just as quickly as it does on my windows box. Then, Windows XP will just be another window in my dock.